Results 1,021-1,040 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: The politics is starting now, the by-election is on.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: Senator Cullinane receives the same salary as the rest of us.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: It was part of your manifesto.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: I have been listening to the debate with interest as it has unfolded and have a point or two to make. As I was not present during the Order of Business, I wish first to acknowledge Senator Thomas Byrne's intention to run in the by-election. While we do not want to wish him success, we do wish him well.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: That was the good thing but now I will start to criticise him. The Sinn Féin position on the property tax is completely dishonest and we need not talk about it. The Fianna Fáil position is worse than dishonest; it is ludicrous. Fianna Fáil was the proponent two years ago of the exact same policy to which it is now completely opposed. It has made the argument that the property tax...
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: The Government.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: Yes.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: Senator à Domhnaill will have to leave the Chamber if he continues talking like that.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: Sinn Féin supporters do not support a united Ireland.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: Some 47% of Sinn Féin supporters do not support a united Ireland.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: No; we will just blame the last government.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
John Gilroy: Yes. We are talking about the Fine Gael position of two years ago, but the Senator is talking about 20 years ago.
- Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: After the last day, that is only right.
- Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: There was nothing going on in the Department of Health and Children under Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the House. I wish to comment first on the amount of work Senator Burke has put into bringing this Bill to this point and on the list of stakeholders to whom he referred. I had a conversation on this with the Senator in the past few days; he has put a remarkable and exemplary amount of work into this. It is probably one of the more elaborate and well-thought out...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: He was four years too late.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: I am often exasperated listening to my colleagues on the other side of the House. Fianna Fáil has always managed to put the party's interests ahead of the country's.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: Three times in the history of the State, we have seen how Fianna Fáil almost bankrupted the country and finally on its fourth attempt it managed to do just that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: I have indeed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Gilroy: It is remarkable then when one sees the amnesia affecting the Opposition with regard to its own incompetency and misgovernment.